unfortunately because of tax and the fact I'm getting a new monitor (current one won't support 1920x1080, which I can do with my new GPU) and Windows 7 64 bit I'm probably looking at 1000 bucks so if anyone can find similar shit for cheaper let me know.

yeah that's how i feel. without those two things I'd be sitting at a reasonable price, but no sense in not taking advantage of the max 2560x1600 resolution provided my GPU (though my monitor will only go up to 1920x1080, which is fine) and vista is, well, shit